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Granted, I haven't been in the classrooms of any of my colleagues, but some of what I hear in conservations about what they cover in class crosses the line in my opinion.
 
Can't really speak to that, I guess. Any specific examples? Did any of your liberal friends see the same thing you did?

I just think the "liberal college professors are brainwashing our children" thing is way overblown.

Who?

I can't think of any specific examples, other than figuring out political slant and writing papers that leaned in a similar way. I know a lot of my more conservative friends commented on getting in the real world and learning that it was okay to be conservative again. My liberal friends used to bitch about how UVA has this super conservative brand attached to it, and a lot of people choose not to go there, but in reality the professors are quite liberal, even if the student body leans more conservative than say NYU.

It's an interesting disconnect because in my experience most of the lawyers that I have dealt with (outside of legal aid) are generally conservative.
 
Who out there thinks college professors determine the political views of their students?
 
Who out there thinks college professors determine the political views of their students?

I cannot think of a single way in which my professors influenced my political views, honestly, other than business and econ classes likely making me more fiscally conservative.

I did have one high school teacher that I believe influenced my political views, though I think it had more to do with finding someone who could intelligently state what I was thinking, especially growing up in a very conservative township. I took a politics class in high school that influenced me as well, but that had less to do with the teacher and more to do with the debates she encouraged among the students.

In general, I think the idea that liberal professors are brainwashing our children is silly.
 
Teachers can make you think about bigger pictures, but they don't imprint their beliefs on their students. Certainly not at the college level.
 
My anthropology and history coursework certainly made me able to appreciate that different people in different cultural contexts experience life and react to stimuli differently. This leads naturally to the conclusion that just because old rich Christian white men in America think things should be a certain way, doesn't mean that way actually works or even makes sense to a young poor Muslim Arab woman in Iran. Twigging to the idea that it is valuable to try and understand things from a different point of view hasn't made me liberal per se, but it certainly doesn't match up well with the religious right that predominates in my home town. Ultimately it taught me empathy and humility, and to value objective analysis over subjective opinion. That's how college "changed" me.
 
Here's one I got today:

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[h=5]The Food Stamp Program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is proud to be distributing this year the greatest amount of free Meals and Food Stamps ever, to 46 million people.

Meanwhile, the National Park Service, administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior, asks us "Please Do Not Feed the Animals." Their stated reason for the policy is because "The animals will grow dependent on handouts and will not learn to take care of themselves."

This ends today's lesson in irony[/h]
 
Here's one I got today:

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[h=5]The Food Stamp Program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is proud to be distributing this year the greatest amount of free Meals and Food Stamps ever, to 46 million people.

Meanwhile, the National Park Service, administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior, asks us "Please Do Not Feed the Animals." Their stated reason for the policy is because "The animals will grow dependent on handouts and will not learn to take care of themselves."

This ends today's lesson in irony[/h]

Most people don't eat your face if you refuse to give them what they want.


Unless, of course, you live in Florida.
 
My anthropology and history coursework certainly made me able to appreciate that different people in different cultural contexts experience life and react to stimuli differently. This leads naturally to the conclusion that just because old rich Christian white men in America think things should be a certain way, doesn't mean that way actually works or even makes sense to a young poor Muslim Arab woman in Iran. Twigging to the idea that it is valuable to try and understand things from a different point of view hasn't made me liberal per se, but it certainly doesn't match up well with the religious right that predominates in my home town. Ultimately it taught me empathy and humility, and to value objective analysis over subjective opinion. That's how college "changed" me.

I think that's the part your typical small town conservative views as making you liberal.
 
Teachers can make you think about bigger pictures, but they don't imprint their beliefs on their students. Certainly not at the college level.

I'm guessing you didn't see Lauren Van Meter in the early 70s. Now she could imprint beliefs on almost any male student.
 
This has been making the rounds today, and, aside from being mostly untrue (Ben Stein actually said some of this stupid stuff, in 2005), it is about the dumbest piece of trash I've ever seen put on paper. How do people not just go straight to snopes when they see crap like this? By the way, the White House still calls them Christmas trees.

"Apparently the White House referred to Christmas Trees as “Holiday Trees” for the first time this
year which prompted CBS presenter, Ben Stein, to present this piece which I would like to share with you. I think it applies just as much to many countries as it does to America . . .



The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.


My confession:

I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejewelled trees, Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are, Christmas trees.

It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, “Merry Christmas” to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu. If people want a crib, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.

I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from, that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.

Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren't allowed to worship God? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to.

In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.

Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her: “How could God let something like this happen?” (regarding Hurricane Katrina). Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said: “I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?”

In light of recent events... terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbour as yourself. And we said OK.

Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave, because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said okay.

Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.

Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.'

Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.

Are you laughing yet?

Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it.

Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.

Pass it on if you think it has merit.

If not, then just discard it.... no one will know you did. But if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.

My Best Regards, Honestly and respectfully,

Ben Stein"

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/confessions.asp
 
People don't go to Snopes because they don't want to know the facts.
 
Here's one I got today:

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[h=5]The Food Stamp Program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is proud to be distributing this year the greatest amount of free Meals and Food Stamps ever, to 46 million people.

Meanwhile, the National Park Service, administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior, asks us "Please Do Not Feed the Animals." Their stated reason for the policy is because "The animals will grow dependent on handouts and will not learn to take care of themselves."

This ends today's lesson in irony[/h]

board admins please add the head banging against the wall emoticon back
 
He did eventually respond.



So in defending his completely made up 44% number for HS dropouts NATIONWIDE. He then posts an article about latinos in high schools in LA. And even those numbers don't reach the 44% mark he randomly set. Genius.

Then he tried to get one more jab in, I believe to see if I would bite. I'm not sure what this had to do with anything we were talking about, but I digress.

how have you not defriended this guy yet? i'm all for productive discussions, but when there's that much idiocy being spewed left and right, there comes a point where you just have to cut ties.
 
Not from Facebook, but an email forward from a Fox News watcher. Just... :rulz:



[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]CATCHING PIGS
There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange
students in the class.
One day while the class was in the lab, the Prof noticed one young man, an
exchange student, who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back
hurt.

The professor asked the young man what was the matter.

The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot
while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow
his country's government and install a new communist regime.

In the midst of his story, he looked at the professor and asked a strange
question. He asked: "Do you know how to catch wild pigs?"

The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young
man said that it was no joke.

"You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting
corn on the ground.
The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they
are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place
where they are used to coming.

When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you
put up another side of the fence.

They get used to that and start to eat again.
You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in
the last side.

The pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to
eat that free corn again.

You then slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd.
Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom.

They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught.

Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they
have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept
their captivity."

The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening
in America . The government keeps pushing us toward Communism/Socialism and
keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as
supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tax exemptions, tobacco

subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare,
medicine, drugs, etc. while we continually lose our freedoms, just a little
at a time.

One should always remember two truths:

1) There is no such thing as a free lunch, someone is paying for it

2) and when you begin to think that having your government
provide for you and make your decisions is ok, realize that you've
also given up the freedom that goes with making your own choices.

If you see that all of this wonderful government 'help' is a problem
confronting the future of democracy in America , you might want to send this
on to your friends.

If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life, then you will
probably delete this email.

But God help you when the gate slams shut!
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how have you not defriended this guy yet? i'm all for productive discussions, but when there's that much idiocy being spewed left and right, there comes a point where you just have to cut ties.

Not on my friend list. Have these humorous discussions with him thru one of the aunts of gsdiy. I like to poke his cage about once a month to see what other nonsense he has in store for me.
 
Republicans think poor people are animals. That's one of the best things to come out of 2012. We now have evidence and confirmation of Republican views about the poor and women.
 
Not from Facebook, but an email forward from a Fox News watcher. Just... :rulz:



[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]CATCHING PIGS
There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange
students in the class.
One day while the class was in the lab, the Prof noticed one young man, an
exchange student, who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back
hurt.

The professor asked the young man what was the matter.

The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot
while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow
his country's government and install a new communist regime.

In the midst of his story, he looked at the professor and asked a strange
question. He asked: "Do you know how to catch wild pigs?"

The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young
man said that it was no joke.

"You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting
corn on the ground.
The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they
are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place
where they are used to coming.

When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you
put up another side of the fence.

They get used to that and start to eat again.
You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in
the last side.

The pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to
eat that free corn again.

You then slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd.
Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom.

They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught.

Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they
have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept
their captivity."

The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening
in America . The government keeps pushing us toward Communism/Socialism and
keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as
supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tax exemptions, tobacco

subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare,
medicine, drugs, etc. while we continually lose our freedoms, just a little
at a time.

One should always remember two truths:

1) There is no such thing as a free lunch, someone is paying for it

2) and when you begin to think that having your government
provide for you and make your decisions is ok, realize that you've
also given up the freedom that goes with making your own choices.

If you see that all of this wonderful government 'help' is a problem
confronting the future of democracy in America , you might want to send this
on to your friends.

If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life, then you will
probably delete this email.

But God help you when the gate slams shut!
[/FONT]
[/FONT]

This didn't make any fucking sense whatsoever.
 
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